Word: priests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clock one morning last week a jostling crowd-tourists, sailors and townspeople, elbow to elbow with priests and nuns-had swarmed into the 13th century Cathedral of San Gennaro in Naples. Promptly on the hour, a mustached monsignor walked slowly to a side altar, carrying a glass-windowed silver reliquary containing two glass vials partly filled with a dark, solid, opaque substance. As the priest turned the reliquary around and around before the golden-faced bust of St. Januarius, Naples' patron saint, onlookers prayed: "Come and grant us your favor, 0 beautiful saint, great champion of Jesus Christ...
...Most frequently advanced theory: heat from the priest's hands, or from unaccustomed light and motion, melts a bloodlike substance with a very low melting point (one scientist claimed to have duplicated the effect with a misuse of chocolate powder and milk serum). Partisans of San Gennaro retort that 1) temperature tests refute the heat theory; 2) the liquefaction has sometimes taken place without the container's being touched...
...playground. Quickly the cart pullers-parishioners of nearby St. Philip's Church-set up three canvas walls (painted to resemble an East End living room) on the rough-planked cart, tapped a nearby flat for electricity to operate the homemade floodlights. Then the bell swinger-Father Oswald, Anglican priest in charge of St. Philip's and a member of Britain's Society of St. Francis-blessed his troupe of parishioners, who made the sign of the cross and climbed onto the cart to revive a medieval custom, the morality play...
...gold medal and the title primus perpetuus, i.e., everlasting first. At 17, he entered the Society of Jesus, took his first vows two years later in 1909. He took a doctorate in civil law at Louvain University in 1919 and the same year was ordained a priest. Over the next quarter-century, and especially as head of the North Belgian Province (1938-46), Father Janssens developed a kind of subterranean reputation as a quiet, levelheaded administrator. No one was more surprised than the self-effacing Belgian when in 1946 he became the fourth of his countrymen to head the Jesuits...
...lash," he called the muddled genius. After his first success. Gogol left Russia in a huff, spent twelve nostalgic years in self-imposed exile. He made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, slowly developed a religious mania and fell into the hands of a fanatic Russian Orthodox priest who persuaded Gogol that art was sinful. Thus an artist who all his life had been dissatisfied with his own work and had often burned manuscripts in the interests of perfection now burned his manuscripts in the interests...